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The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

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THE HUMAN SOULIn Iconography, I have not studied <strong>the</strong>solar light, reflected by photographedobjects, as an impressing agent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>plate; on <strong>the</strong> contrary, I have alwaysattempted to affect this same plate bywaves, by emanations, by <strong>the</strong> intimatevibrations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> invisible or visible objectsin more or less obscurity.I have especially sought to obtain <strong>the</strong>signatures <strong>of</strong> hidden forces, vital <strong>and</strong>psychical forces ^ refused up to <strong>the</strong>present.Iconography, such as I believe to havecreated <strong>and</strong> exposed, is based on <strong>the</strong> directaction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>human</strong> <strong>soul</strong> acting through<strong>the</strong> h<strong>and</strong> on <strong>the</strong> plate. Since 1893 myexperiments have taken place withoutany intermediary lense, reversing <strong>the</strong>image. Solar light is refracted in inflectedfoci, whilst <strong>the</strong> animistic glimmering<strong>of</strong> man, or <strong>the</strong> force <strong>of</strong> universal life,penetrates straight into <strong>the</strong> bodies, oremerges without deviation <strong>and</strong> traces<strong>its</strong>elf in <strong>its</strong> very form.<strong>The</strong> interpretation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> seen formsis

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